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How to make a violin : The violin, its construction practically treated, 1892
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 64. See the scan on archive.org.
1is to be held quite steady, and a double cut of the proper depth run round the margin of the back and breast, the interior wood is afterwards to be cleanly cut out with a chisel-sharpened awl.* The indenting groove must be cut gradually and carefully, never allowing the tool to tear the wood, or slip from the proper place. At the parts of the back and belly opposite to the extremities of the neck, where the indenting tool does not reach, two pencil lines may be drawn through the spaces, and the groove cut to such lines with a thin pointed penknife, and the wood cut out as previously."
3When the purfling tool has been run twice along the intended groove, take a sharp knife and cut away enough wood from the groove to allow the awl to enter. The next figure shows the shape to which the awl should be bent and the way the point should be ground. A shows the side view, and B the front view of the point. When you have
5* By a "chisel-sharpened awl," is meant a cobbler's awl, narrow enough to run easily in the width of the groove made by the purfling tool but ground to a flat and sharp edge.
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